#cotl semi human au

[ane-doodles]

Human bishops!

And I said "oh, let's do some sketches and that's it…" what a liar

Working on other characters… eventually

[megastrikeback]

Narinder Headcanon's because me n my friend beat his bossfight yesterday :3

[infernal-lamb]

i’d love to hear more about neves if you’re comfortable sharing :Dc

its so funny to get asked this knowing that I can't reveal too much about Neves without spoiling a bunch of things from my fic, despite that I would love nothing more to spill all her lore......what I CAN tell you is that she was sent to the Lands of the Old Faith for a very particular reason and she's kept safe by the Lamb for a reason too. She comes from a pastoralist/agrarian upbringing and spent the entirety of her life in this profession (hint hint). Livestock, land cultivation, and the demoralizing poverty in a society that does not value such work and considers it a degrading role for outliers! you know, the usual. She talks like a farmer and a butcher, which is how u get silly stuff like THIS happening when she's getting to know the Lamb and their Flock:

(She's talking like a butcher here, which obviously is off-putting for the Lamb, mostly because they can't quite gather context, and she does....make a lot of jokes like this but. She's just human you know!)

Neves is firm in her convictions and is stubbornly attached to the idea of her own righteousness. She's just too smart to be misled.

She believes herself above indoctrination, of course.

She has too much wit

too much rebelliousness

She would never be a victim! That's Neves for you :) She'll survive the horrors.

[starsonablackboard]

that stych's post i reblogged pushed me to actually write out thoughts I've been mulling over

the last time i was properly in fandom was in 2015-2018 when undertale was at its peak, and i mostly consumed content back then. over the following years i gradually pulled out of fandom spaces (i still enjoyed and do enjoy media, just to myself, sometimes discussing with friends maybe) and also went hard into my own ideas. I've been writing and drawing pretty much only my own stuff for half a decade, and cotl is the first thing that actually got me into fanart and fandom since then

and it cool!! I've been drawing a lot more because of this, i love seeing ideas and creations of others, i found a lot of works that made me feel deep cathartic feelings, and, of course, i tasted The Feedback that comes with sharing my own ideas

and all of it comes with a lot of polarising thoughts and emotions. should i spend so much time and effort on fanart when i could be (should be?) working on my own ideas? should i share my au things or is it pointless? will i be content if what i do share doesn't receive the feedback i want it to? should i write about more personal stuff or is it unnecessary and silly and oversharing since im just a "cotl fanart" blog? do i even truly want to share my personal thoughts or is it unsatisfied desire for attention talking and i will regret it later? does all of it even matter when not that many people see my posts anyway? maybe i should pull out of fandom again, since it went perfectly fine all those years and now im so conflicted? isn't it silly to feel so much uncertainty and confusion about such meaningless thing as fandom? (fandom isn't meaningless, it was a huge part of humanity since forever, there's a reason i used the word cathartic earlier, hi aristotle. it's just what my inner monologue sounds like)

im in general a very cautious person when it comes to getting emotionally invested in things, and this was immensely emotionally invest..ful? for me so far. combined with the semi-novelty of fandom, it's safe to say i feel a little lost

no conclusion, just some thoughts. will probably delete later, maybe not

[ollyou]

What mainly got you to like the Origami siblings so much?

OOH OKAY THIS IS A FUN QUESTION FOR ME. WARNING FOR LOTS OF TEXT!

TL;DR FOR EVERYTHING: I was obsessed with Olivia and Bobby as family to Mario, and just really found interest in how tragic Olly and the siblings are in general. Then, I had my obsession reignited by the dreaded (/j) “Ollys ship”.

Okay, first I gotta say how I got into the game in the first place!!

To make it semi-brief, I got back into my Mario fixation after years of lessened interest by playing Minecraft…. SILLY, RIGHT? Well, I decided I wanted to listen to video game OSTs while I play with my little sister watching, and naturally, Mario games have always consistently had my favorite OSTs— and actually, my two favorite OSTs of all time (even before this story) are the ones for Super Paper Mario and Bowser’s Inside Story! Eventually I decided I’d listen to more Paper Mario music, and then it led to me getting a short-lived fixation on Color Splash.

While I was listening to Color Splash’s OST in early May 2020, I recall telling my sister, “I wonder when they’re going to make a new Paper Mario game, if they will at all. I’d really wanna play it!”

And then not even a week later, PMTOK was announced. IT WAS REALLY FUNNY AND CRAZY TIMING. I was already at the peak of my Paper Mario fixation, so this was perfect!

Basically I was pretty much immediately excited to see two completely original characters in this game. I thought Olly looked really pretty, too, even though at first I wasn’t sure how to feel about the whole origami stuff. Nonetheless, I was OBSESSED. With the whole game. I vividly remember checking the website for it constantly and watching analysis videos of the trailers, as well as gushing over Bobby (before I even knew much about him at all) to my friend on Sky: CotL…. I also had made sure to watch the Nintendo Treehouse livestream for the game. I watched near EVERY trailer online, to the point that when I played the actual game, it felt like almost nothing was new. I had preordered the game too, on my birthday about a month prior to the game’s release. I WOULD CONSTANTLY TALK ABOUT THE GAME, SAYING “You should buy Paper Mario: The Origami King releasing exclusively on the Nintendo Switch for $59.99 USD on July 17th, 2020” FOR THE FUNNIES. No one I knew was super interested in the game, though, so I was just gushing about it by myself on my private Instagram.

When the game released, I livestreamed myself playing it! And.. my… my first livestream caption 😄😄 was um 😄😄😄😃😄😄

…YEEEAAAH. /J

Again, all silly jokes. I constantly joke about wanting fictional characters… it’s not a creepy thing, TRUST ME….

BUT ANYWAY, this kind of started the “public” gushing over the origami siblings (in quotations because it was only to my friends on a private Instagram account, before I even joined the PMTOK fandom).

Then, of course…

There goes my crazy attachment to Olivia and Bobby. I was so obsessed with those two (IN A PLATONIC/FAMILIAL WAY + MARIO). The drawing above is of myself playing the role of Mario, hanging out with Olivia and Bobby.

I also was just… super obsessed with how tragic but beautiful Olly was. I wanted to give him a better ending, which resulted in so many of the AU stuff going on. You can see how I felt in the moment in the image above.

The game itself basically got me obsessed with the siblings! But then….

I started drawing them as people. (I know, the art is kind of ugly. It’s from 2020, cut me some slack!)

I also apparently wrote this on my designs for them…?! So that’s why my human designs look so basic.

I’d never liked humanizations, because I’ve always had this thing where I hate human characters. However, this somehow changed things for me. These were pretty much my first humanizations, made in August 2020.

Well, that’s great and all, but how am I still so obsessed with them???

The answer is super embarrassing.

I actually had a moment where I was losing interest in PMTOK. This was around early 2021. Then comes along the worst thing to ever happen to me. /j

The Ollys.

I was randomly DMed fanart of me and Sega (Jaded_Is_Jade on Twitter)’s Olly designs by Sega herself one day. Kissing. Passionately. As a joke. It was based off this meme:

…Unfortunately, I don’t think Sega will ever allow me to share this drawing with the public.

Anyway, as someone who found selfcest absolutely hilarious due to its sheer absurdity and impossibility in real life, I thought this was a new funny recurring joke we’d have.

Yeah. “Joke”. We kept drawing art of the Ollys. It was all funny, but then we moved on to writing fanfics about them. Then, this sort of wound up becoming a symbol of our bond.

The Ollys have been a thing since February 24, 2021. It’s horrifying. I feel embarrassed every time I talk about it, because I don’t want people to think I’m often into selfcest (I don’t ship that stuff anywhere else, but if you do that’s cool, it’s just not my thing because I prefer more… possible ships), but this… somehow got me infatuated with Sega’s Olly. Which is really funny, because I used to say “why do people find him hot??? He’s literally a cube.”

So, now a lot of the obsession comes from the Ollys. They really do hold a special place in my heart, for some godforsaken reason. That, and I just love tragic siblings. And fictional siblings in general. I used to be OBSESSED with Papyrus and Sans’s relationship (in a familial way, ya freaks. /j).

SO YEAH. I WENT OFF… A LOT… BUT I HOPE SOMEONE FINDS THIS INTERESTING!! I’d be happy to answer more questions in the near future, so if anything is confusing here, please ask away!

Thank you for the ask! ^_^

[angstandhappiness]

NICE

Human bishops!

And I said "oh, let's do some sketches and that's it…" what a liar

Working on other characters… eventually